Increase the qp-delta, mainly for low resolutions,
excluding case of very low bitrates.
avgPSNR/SSSIM gain of ~3-5% on rtc_derf set.
Small change on rtc set.
Change-Id: Ice03d04bd0340404d1957666ef154fd64fed0606
Use the segment weight factor based on the target (cr->percent_refresh)
if it less than the current estimate (avergae of past usage and target).
Small improvement at low bitrates.
Change-Id: Iba8fd909e203f94458901366d3a991f7ea854d49
Increase the motion threshold and qp-delta for segment#2 boost.
This can increase the frame-drop at low bitrates, but generally
better spatial quality.
Only affects real-time mode with aq-mode=3, at very low bitrates.
Change-Id: I5ccb784667f70d0c27d369806b93b1f93d5605d1
For noisy content, be more aggressive in skippping some blocks for
delta-qp to reduce noise pulsing artifact. Also treat frame boundary
case when dimension is not multiple of superblock size/64.
Only affects non-screen content case, and when source noise
is measured to be high (at least level kMedium).
Change-Id: Ib13a2a20ed1ce37ff3c44d95c3ef2635fd695222
Makes the delta-qp stop little earlier on areas that have been refreshed enough.
This helps to reduce some pulsing artifact on noisy flat areas observed in some
noisy vc-clips.
Threshold changes only take effect for sources where noise level is estimated to
be >= medium level.
Only affects 1 pass CBR, non-screen content case.
Change-Id: Iacf557f6aa8abbcd6782c02ff2e6c14891960850
So it can be used even with aq-mode=3 not enabled.
Also cleans up some code in the places where its used.
No change in behavior.
Change-Id: Ib6b265308dbd483f691200da9a0be4da4b380dbc
Fix the threshold for forcing refresh of golden frame based
on high motion. The current comparison was incorrect and
prevented this (force update of gf on high motion) from being used.
For now keep this logic under a flag (and off for now) so as to
not change behavior, until further testing.
Change-Id: Ib5f0082159a428b0603b9534e4bcb6f83e4ccb25
For 1 pass real-time mode. No change in behavior as only last
and golden are used as references in 1 pass real-time mode.
Change-Id: Ie4655014eee1a8b271542f29d74b2c6f7fed54c9
delete apply_cyclic_refresh_bitrate(). unused since:
3472cbb vp9 aq-mode=3: Keep it on even at low bitrates.
Change-Id: I0fac9a31b59504e31000ac3a8f0b68e8d4320113
For aqmode=3, golden period update is set based on period of cyclic refresh.
Put a limit on max golden period update, for now set to 40.
And fix comment.
Change-Id: Icb61dd87c796cce2a5f5f7331c6a129540994696
Add function to compute skin map for a given block, as its
used in several places (cyclic refresh, noise estimation, and denoising).
Change-Id: Ied622908df43b6927f7fafc6c019d1867f2a24eb
For coding block sizes <=16X16, if the block is determined to be skin,
then always allow for that block to be candidate for refresh. So if that
block happens to be on the boost segment(s), segment won't get reset to 0
and delta-q will be applied.
PSNR/SSIM metrics neutral (little/no change) on RTC clips.
Speed increase small/negligible (< 1%).
Some visual improvement on faces in a few RTC clips.
Change-Id: I6bf0fce6f39d820b491ce05d7c017ad168fce7d6
Source noise level estimate is also useful for
setting variance encoder parameters (variance thresholds,
qp-delta, mode selection, etc), so allow it to be used also
if denoising is not on.
Change-Id: I4fe23d47607b4e17a35287057f489c29114beed1
Adjust variance threshold, delta-qp, and intra penalty cost,
based on estimated noise level in source.
Replace denoising_on with a level value=L/M/H.
Change-Id: I0c017dae75a5d897367d2c42dec26f2f37e447c1
Adjust the qp threshold and consec_zeromv threshold for
limiting cyclic refresh. Also increase the refresh period
when the limit amount is significant, and some code-cleanup.
Small gain in PSNR/SSIM metrics: ~0.25/0.3 gain on RTC set, speed 7.
Change only affects non-screen content.
Change-Id: I1ced87a89a132684c071e722616e445b2d18236a
Small code cleanup. consec_zeromv refresh threshold
does not need to be computed for every super-block.
No change in behavior.
Change-Id: I8c4b1b28072f42b01d917fff6d1f62722f1e1554
Use the existing QP condition on limiting cyclic refresh, and add
addiitonal condition that block has been encoded with zero/small motion
x frames in row (where x is at least several times the refresh period).
Additional condition only affect non-screen content mode.
This helps to improve visual stability for noisy input, where on steady
background areas the application of delta_qp may lead to encoding the noise.
Also added a change to use the true skip (after encoding) to update the
last QP.
Change-Id: I234a1128d017d284cf767fdb58ef6c59d809f679
For 1 pass CBR spatial-SVC:
Add cyclic refresh parameters to the svc-layer context.
This allows cyclic refresh (aq-mode=3) to be applied to
the whole super-frame (all spatial layers).
This gives a performance improvement for spatial layer encoding.
Addd the aq_mode mode on/off setting as command line option.
Change-Id: Ib9c3b5ba3cb7851bfb8c37d4f911664bef38e165
Use the correct period (in terms of cr->percent_refresh) for the condition
of larger delta-qp following key frame.
And account for larger interval for temporal layers.
Change-Id: Ibb43f5200f9b1eeb8bbb8211327b08ecda3c3b8a
In aq-mode=3 under a resizing action (i.e., resize_pending != 0),
force an update of the golden reference frame.
Change-Id: I14806f6db71b5f8c827678cc5e1fc913c138a9a4
Reduce boost for segment#2 for low bitrates and low-res.
This change is to reduce the rate overshoot at low bitrates.
No change in behavior, except at the very low bitrates.
Change-Id: I0dbd9d3b6356da5804de94adf10fca6a7a8f8948
For screen content don't refresh a block at a quantizer higher than
it was last coded at. PReviosuly at realtime speeds the encoder had a
tendency to recode a block from GOLDEN with a higher Q than it was last
coded at.
Change-Id: Iacd561806c769dcce1a81b9827ffc70090f5ba18
Decision to scale down/up is based on buffer state and average QP
over previous time window. Limit the total amount of down-scaling
to be at most one scale down for now.
Reset certain quantities after resize (buffer level, cyclic refresh,
rate correction factor).
Feature is enable via the setting rc_resize_allowed = 1.
Change-Id: I9b1a53024e1e1e953fb8a1e1f75d21d160280dc7
Reduce motion threshold and boost factor for second segment,
for low bitrates, at low resolutions for now.
This is to reduce the rate fluctuation/frame dropping that occurs
at these low bitrates.
Change-Id: Ia66c3be41831882fca8c1e4fe104f5ea8fbe7142
The default golden frame interval was doubled. After encoding a
frame, the background motion was measured. If the motion was high,
the current frame was set as the golden frame. Currently, the
changes were applied only while aq-mode 3 was on.
Borg tests(rtc set) showed a 0.226% PSNR gain and 0.312% SSIM gain.
No speed changes.
Change-Id: Id1e2793cc5be37e8a9bacec1380af6f36182f9b1
Factor in segment#2 and skip blocks into the postencode estimated bits,
and increase somewhat the aggressiveness of the refresh.
PSNR/SSIM Metrics on RTC set go up by ~0.8/0.5%.
Change-Id: I5d4e7cb00a3aefb25d18c88b6b24118b72dc5d51
